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Re: “What about a Child’s Bill of Rights?,” March 8 Dottie Lamm column.
In her column last Sunday, Dottie Lamm put forth a number of demands children should make as their rights. It is nearly complete from my perspective as a mother of four and grandmother of five. I would also include the right to walk home from their neighborhood school and the right to play outside without constant supervision at an appropriate age (not necessarily 17).
Just because we hear immediately about every terrible thing happening anywhere and everywhere in the world does not mean that our general neighborhood is unsafe. Reasonable limits can be set for “free-range kids” within most neighborhoods. The potential outcome would be slower weight gain with more activity, problem-solving skills (taking turns?) and friends watching out for friends and possibly making new ones.
I see this as just as important as what Lamm includes in the “bill of rights.”
Judith Cerasoli,Littleton
This letter was published in the March 15 edition.Regarding a “Child’s Bill of Rights,” Dottie Lamm writes, “As a lifelong advocate for the rights of children both at home and abroad … .”
This is comical in the face of her denial of the most foundational right of the most innocent among us. Her decades-old advocacy of a woman’s “right to choose” obliterates any rights of the child.
If anyone wants to promote a Child’s Bill of Rights that begins with, “I demand the right not to be ripped out of my mother’s womb and discarded like yesterday’s leftovers,” count me in, but don’t put your hypocrisy on public display by denying this first right while promoting the ones that do not matter if the child is dead.
Donna Jorgenson Farrell,Broomfield
This letter was published in the March 15 edition.
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